Candy-pulling machine.



E. F. MCCARTHY & E. w. WILSON.

CANDY PULUNG MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 28 1914- 1313997860 Patented May 18, 1915.

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E. F. MCCARTHY & E. W. WILSON.

CANDY PULLING MACHINE.

APPUCATION FILED JULY 28. 1914.

L1 39386 a Patented May 18, 1915.

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E. F. MCCARTHY & E. W. WILSON.

CANDY PULLING MACHINE.

APPLICATIION man JULY 28, m4.

1,139,786 Patented May18;1915.

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EDWARD F. MCCARTHY AND EDWARD .W. WILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

(SANDY-PULLING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, EDWARD F. MCCAR- THY and EDWARD W. VILSON, CitiZI1SOfthG United Statespresiding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Candy-Pulling Machines, of which the following isa specification. a This invention relates to candy-pulling machines, and has for its object the provision of a machine which will quickly and thoroughlypull and aerate candy and will operate u on the entire mass of candy placed wit in its range.

The invention, also; seeks to provide a machine for the stated purposewhichwill be free of complicated constructions and arrangements of itsparts and which will be.

strong, durable and inexpensive.

These objects are attained in mechanism such as is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and the invention resides in certain novel features which will be particularly pointed out in the claims following the hereinafter given detailed description.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of our invention, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a complete machine. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation of the same. Figs. 3 to 11 are diagrarm matic views illustrating the operation of the several candy-engaging parts.

In the machine illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the candy-engaging and treating members comprise a-plurality of pins 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The pin 1 is carried at the upper end of an oscillatory or. vibratory arm or lever 6 which. isjfulcrumed at the lower end of a standard? secured in any desired manner upon the floorof the workroom. The pins 2-and 3 are carried by the opposite ends of an arm 8 whichtis 'fixed upon a shaft 9 journaled in and extending through the standard 7 near the upper end thereof, the pins 2 and 3being at unequal distances from the said shaft so that in effect the shaft carries a long arm and a short arm each of which is provided at its extremity with a pin projecting therefrom outwardly with respectto the standard. The

pin 1 at the upper end of the lever 6 projects inwardly toward the standard and the pins 4: and 5 likewise project inwardly toward thestandard, the pin 5' being rigid With the Specificationof Letters Patent. I Application filed July as, 1914.; SerialNo. 853,685.

Patented May 18,1915.

spaced equi-di stant from the shaft .9 and, in y the operation. of the" device, the pin 3 describes acircle which lies between the said pins4 and 5 while the pin 2 will describe a circle inclosing said pins. The pin 1 will describe an are passing between the pins 4 and 5 andintersecting the circles described I by the pins 2 and 3. desired or convenlentyoperatlng mechanism may .be em ployed so as to-impart slmultaneous motion tothe pins 1, 2 ands; In the accompanying H drawings we have illustrated a worm gear 12fixed upon the shaft 9 and driven by a worm 13on-the upper end of a shaftl wl1ich i.s journaled in brackets 14 on the;

standard and is provided with a bevel gear wheel15 at its lower end. The said gear; wheel 15 meshes with a pin 16 upon a driv ingshaft 17. In the accompanying draw-' i'ngs we haveillustrated conventionally an electric motor 18 acting directly upon the said driving shaft but itwill' be understood that motionmay be imparted to the said shaft in any other manner as may be desired.

A shaft" 1 9 is journaled in and extends through the 'standard 7 and has the" vibra-o tory lever 6 secured rigidly to its front end. The; rear end'of this shaft 19 is equipped with a "crank arm 20 and the said crank arm is connected'by. a link 21 to a wrist pin or crank 22 carried by the worm wheel 12. It

will be readily understood that by the described arrangement motionwill be imparted from the driving shaft 17 through the gear wheel15 and the shaft 14:. the worm 13 and the wheel 12 to the shaft 9 so as to impart a continuous rotary {motion to said shaft. The. wrist pin or crank 22 will, of course, be continuously rotated and will reciprocate the'link 21 which in turn will act uponthe crankfarm 20 so as to oscillate the said crank and this oscillation will, of

course, be transmitted directly to the shaft 19 and the lever 6, the pin 1 being thereby caused to describe an arc of about 60.

The candy to be treated is, of course; hung upon one of the pins and will be engaged by the moving pins so as to be looped around the same and the stationary pins and'will be drawn out by the pins successively en gaging itin theoperation-of the machine.

It will be noted that the pin 1 is so disposed;

as to clear the rotary arm or lever 8 and the pins 4 and 5 are spaced from the standard 7 so that the said rotary arm or lever may readily pass between them and the standard. The spaced relation of the terminals of the pins 4 and 5 to thestandardalso facilitates theremoval ofthe candy from themachine after it has been sufliciently treated,-and to prevent the candy slipping from the' pins prematurely while the machine .1s= in operation we enlarge the pins at their free ends so that they are substantially conical'as incandy slipping offIthe pins while it isbeing treated. m i 1 I .The candy dicated at 23. The ends of the pins may be formed into balls as this'construction will permit the ready removal of the treated candyandat the same time w1ll prevent the I to be treated hung upon any of the pins but, as a matter of convenience and safety, it is preferableto place it initially upon the pinl carried by the lever '6 for the reason that this lever .will be at somefdistance fromuthe standard and the other pinsandthe operator is, consequently,

notv liable to be injured, aswill be readily.

- understoodupon reference to;Figs. -1 and 2 of the, drawings. The candy having been I looped about the pin 'l'the machine sis-set in operation and the'said pin will then be-care 'ried'to theopposite side of the machine and 1 the rotary arm 8 simultaneously set in mo tion. "The pin 1 will pass tothe'opposite side of the machine before the-pins2 and 3 completearevolution and the candy will not be interceptedby said pins until after it has been: drawn entirely across the arc described by the pin'l. The candy then being supported by the hand of'the operatorand bythe pin 1, as shown in Fig, 4 of the drawings,-the-.pin 2willhave been brought toa position-just above the candy and the 'pin'3 to. a position just belowthe-same. As the pin 1 now' starts back over its path, the.

movementof the pins 2 and 3 will continue and the candy will'be looped about thesaid.

* pins. As thepin 1 reaches aposition sub stantially in vertical alinement with the pins 4 and 5, the' pin '3-will'reach a position below thepin 5 and above the pin '1 while the pin 2 will be passing below-the pin 4,-the' candy 'beingthuslooped about the pin 4 and'being again intercepted by the pin 1, as shownin Fig. The pin 1 now con-- i es its mo ment back o-i s i itia P0:

sition and the candy will be stretched be- I tween said pin and the pin 3. Atthe same time, the pin 2 will intercept the candy passing from the pin 1 to the pin 3 and the candy looped about the pin 4 so that the candy will be also stretched between the pins 1 and 4 and will be again looped about the pin 2, as is shown in Fig. 6. The pin 1 now again reverses while the pins 2 and 3 continue their circular tIiLVQl, the pin 2 now carrying the candy above the pin 5, while the pin 3 will move against thecandy stretched upwardly from the pin 4, the pin 1 passing between the pins 2 and 3 as well as between the pins 4 and5 and also intercepting said candy; This position is shown in Fig.7.

The entire' batch of candy will now have been fed to the machine and the machine will continue to automatically loop it successively about'the several pins, and as the moving pinsrecede from the fixed pins the candy will be stretched thoroughly throughout andin'the stretching operation will be aerated.- lVhenthe pins reach the position shown in Fig. 7, thepins land 2 will be traveling to the left, as indicatedbythe arrows whilethe pin 3 will be traveling toward the right. The candy between the pins 1 and 4 willbe intercepted by the pin 3; and

will be stretched, as shown in Fig. 8, be-

tween the pins 3 and 4 and also between the pins 3. and 1, whilethe pin 2, looping the candy about thepin 5, will stretch the same.

between itself and said pin and the pin- 1 will also act upon the candy so asto stretch itibetween itself" and the pin 5. This p0 sition is shown in Fig.- 8, and the continued movement of-the' parts will bring theniinto the position shown in Fig. 9 where the several pins are substantially in vertical aline nent and the'pinl has traveled half way j;

tinned movement of theparts will cause the pin 2 to intercept thecandy between the pins 1 and 3 and theworking members will. return to the position shown inFig. 7 whereupon the 'cycle illustrated'in Figs. 8, 9, '10 and llwill beagaimfollowed. This operation may continue. indefinitely until the candy has been stretched according to the wishes of the operator. V y R F fIt will'be readily noted from the foregoingidescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, that we have provided an exceedinglysimple machine in which the candy will be treated throughout its mas and will be quickly brought to the;

desired merchantable "condition without any excessive labor o'n the part of the operator. It will be noted upon reference to Fig'sl 8 to 11 that afterthe complete batch ofcandy has been fed into the machine it will be stretched to the full extent or capacity of the machine twice during the oscillation of the rocking arm, once when the arm is at the left hand limit bras movement and again when the arm is at the right hand limit of its movement. a

his to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the exact details of construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings as various minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as the same is defined in the following claims. Some of the pins may be omitted or they may be otherwise arranged. It will be noted that the stationary pins 4 and 5 are at diametrically opposite points of the paths of the pins 2 and 3 and that any candy which may be supported by the said pins will be intercepted by the pin 3 which describes a circle lying entirely between the stationary pins. Candy carried by the pin 2 will be wrapped around the stationary pins so that if candy will be hung upon the pins 2 and 3 it will be pulled between the said pins and the stati0nary pins and, if the stationary pins be omitted or should be broken, the candy may be substantially treated by the action of the vibrating or reciprocating pin and the pins moving in circular paths inasmuch as the said pins will describe intersecting arcs and will, of course, engage and loop candy following said arcs. 7

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is 1. A candy pulling machine comprising a.

standard, a. vibratory lever fulcrumed upon said standard, a candy engaging pin at the free end of said lever, a rotary arm mounted upon the standard above the fulcrum of the lever, a pin carriedby said arm, brackets secured rigidly to the standard respectively above and below said arm, pins fixed to said brackets, and means for rotating said arm and vibrating said lever simultaneously.

2. A candy-pulling machine comprising a support, stationary pins mounted in reentrant relation to the said support, a rotatable arm mounted upon the support and adapted to move past the ends of said stationary pins, pins carried by the said rotatable arm and movable past the stationary pins above and below the same, and a vibratory lever mounted upon the support and having its free end provided with a pin adapted to move between the stationary pins and intersect the paths of the pins carried by the rotatable arm. 3. In a candy-pulling machine, the comblnation of a pair of stationary pins, and

4.; In a stateat reacti g was at aaaat pins and disposed diametrically opposite each other, one of said pins describing a circle lying entirely between the stationary nation of a pair of pins traveling in independent concentric circles, and a vibratory plin traversing an arc intersecting said cir- 0 es. 7

6. In a candy-pulling machine, the combination of a pair of movable pins describing concentric circles and in fixed diametrically opposite relation to each other, a pair of stationary pins disposed at diametrically opposite points of a circle located between andconcentric with the circular paths of the i i said movable pins, anda vibratory pin traversing an arc intersecting said circles and passing between the stationary plns.

7. In a candy-pulling machine, the combination of an oscillatory pin, a plurality of pins each traveling in a circular path intersecting the are described by said oscillatory pin, and stationary pins at the opposite sides of said arc, and circumscribed by the circular path traveled by some of the secondmentioned pins.

8. A candy-pulling machine comprising a plurality of stationary pins, and a plurality of movable pins, the movable pins being arranged some to move between the stationary pins and across the plane of the same and others to travel around all the stationary pins. V j

9. A candy-pulling machine comprising a support, an arm pivoted on the support, pins projecting from said arm at opposite sides of the pivotal point'thereof, stationary pins on the support projecting toward said arm,

a lover, a pin on said lever projecting toward ried'by said arm at opposite sides of andat unequal distances from said shaft, stationary pinsca rried by the support at opposite sides of said shaftand located at points be- 5 t'ween'the respective paths of thefirst-mentioned pins, a second shaft journaled in the support below the first-mentioned shaft, a

I lever carriedby said second shaft and projecting upwardly therefrom infront of and 10 above the lower stationary pin, a pin carried by the upper end-of sgtid lever, and means for rotating the first-mentioned shaft and Oscillating thesecond shaft. j In testimony whereof we'aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD F. MCCARTHY. ,[L.s.] VED WARD W. WILSON., 7 [LS] Witnesses:v JUDITH JOHNSO ELVIRA HOGLUND.

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